... and I'll bet he's a pretty good kicker, too!
Posted on 01/28/2014 2:30:58 PM PST by Zakeet
Conner Mertens, a redshirt freshman kicker at D-III Willamette University in Oregon, did something on Monday night that no college football player on any level had ever done before.
He came out, while still an active player. First to his coach, then to his team, and now Conner Mertens is coming out publicly.
“I'm bisexual,” Mertens told head coach Glen Fowles via Outsports.com, who informed his young kicker prior to his message that all the coach cared about was his kicker's accuracy. His off the field actions wouldn't affect his playing time, Fowles told Mertens. In fact, when Mertens asked for the meeting, Fowles and Willamette's special teams coordinator had thought he was transferring.
“I like dudes. I have a boyfriend. And next week,” Mertens told his coach last Monday, “I'm going to tell the world.”
And on Monday, he did.
Mertens, who didn't see the field last year thanks to an injury, risked burying himself on the depth chart by opening up to his teammates and his coaches. He risked alienating his teammates and jeopardizing his social status.
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... and I'll bet he's a pretty good kicker, too!
OK so we have a new term for college athletes — Pink Shirting.
Let’s see one of these guys “come out” as an active Conservative and see how much news and love they get.
Translation: I'm addicted to sex and it doesn't matter who I have it with..........
I’m pretty sure that was an unofficial requirement already for special teams, no?
What if he's into 2-year-olds?
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Why should anyone care what sort of sexual behavior excites him? The coach was right. The only thing is for him to be a successful kicker.
It is not Conservatives who are obsessed with sex; it’s the liberals who are obsessed with it. It is the center of their entire universe.
Is that where the team doesn’t play him for a year due to sexual preference?
That is what this kid will say when the coach doesn’t play him next year.
Look everyone, the coach pink shirted me.
“He risked alienating his teammates and jeopardizing his social status.”
Cry me a river, already.
Publicity whore. Does ANYONE give a fig about a Div III kicker’s sexual orientation(s)? He was probably hoping for a last minute invite to sit with Michelle at tonite’s SOTU.
Why would I need to know any of this?
Well, good for him. Hope the locker room doesn’t get too hostile.
I think I can speak for most D-III students reactions to this news would be “ our school has a football team?”
I doubt he is the first. How about almost every female field hockey player?
Hopefully, the thighs themselves are warm, or he just might be a necrophiliac. The medical school better check their cadaver storage room.
I may think it but I ain't gonna say it. Those sticks look like they could hurt.
In, out, whatever.
Just don’t expect me to join in celebration of sin.
“Why should anyone care what sort of sexual behavior excites him?”
He showers with the team.
So he stares at everybody's ass.
C'mon pick a side and stay there.
That’s enough to get him to sit with the worst lady at the SOTU
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